Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:58:45 +0100 (MEZ) From: Ralf Meyer <ralf@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE> To: chr_lor@email.msn.com, sue@welearn.com.au Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i am time limited but would like to help on an intermitent basis on whatever. Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9902181636280.40872-100000@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE> In-Reply-To: <19990217170117.03714@welearn.com.au>
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Hi, I just want to thank Christopher and Sue for their postings. Christopher, you have written almost exactly the message I would have written myself in a couple of days. Sue, you have kindly given a very complete answer. At the moment I'm still setting up my system which consists of a rather old 33 MHz '386 and a 120 MHz Pentium connected via ethernet. While I have been using Unix-like workstations for a long time, setting up a network is a new experience to me. Therefore, i suppose it will take some days more until all subsystems are working. After completing the installation phase I will see what I can do best in order to support the FreeBSD project. Regards Ralf On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 09:52:36PM -0600, Christopher wrote: > > would love to help but can't guarantee any certain amount of time to > > set aside for it but if you have some long term pooled project i > > would love to help > > Good on you, Chris! It's important that you pick something you enjoy > doing, especially if your time is short. If you don't know much about > FreeBSD there's still lots of ways to help. Here's a few ideas: > > Join the FreeBSD Documentation Project. All you have to do is subscribe > to the freebsd-doc mailing list, which is very low volume. Offer your > services to review documentation that others write. Look over the > Handbook and FAQ and see if there's anything missing or that doesn't > make sense to you. Have a go at writing little bits to submit, then get > feedback from the freebsd-doc group. If you're a newbie, your ideas > about documentation are valuable, even if you can't provide > documentation yourself. > > Hang around here and help other newbies find the documentation or > mailing lists that they need, or just make them feel welcome. > > Subscribe to freebsd-questions and help out there if there are areas > where you have knowledge to share. A lot of newbies rely on > freebsd-questions when they get stuck, and sometimes it takes another > newbie to explain it just right. > > Tell your friends about FreeBSD, give them your old CDs so they can try > it out, join a users group if there's one nearby. > > Look out for typos as you read through the man pages. A lot of this has > been done over the last few months, but it's amazing how those little > glitches can hide unseen until a fresh pair of eyes comes along. > Learn to use diff and send-pr to make and submit quick minor > corrections. > > Write an article for Daemon News or the FreeBSD ezine or a good FreeBSD > article for any on line or hard copy publication. > > Subscribe to freebsd-advocacy and share ideas. > > Hang around on the IRC channel #freebsd on undernet. There's always > people there to help or be helped by or just to enjoy each other's > company. > > Use freebsd-newbies to discuss other ways that you and others can help. > A lot of people have discussed ideas here in the past, and while some > have created a lot of enjoyable noise and not ammounted to much, others > have been very successful. I think it's important that we be free to > "brainstorm" without too much scrutiny or commitment because it can > take a bit of dislodging to get the very best ideas flowing and enthuse > others. > > When you do something new or exciting like setting up your first > network, installing FreeBSD for a friend, or learning how to reboot > properly for the first time, tell us about your ups and downs, gloat > about your victory. It's always nice to discover that someone else out > there has had similar adventures and here we can relate to even the > most minor victory on a social level. On the other hand, if you want to > write down what you did and how you did it, that would be better as a > piece for the documentation project (above) or an ezine article (also > above) or both. > > If you're busy, a lot of the above ideas involve thinking that can be > done in odd moments like when waiting for a bus or during TV > commercials. > > Another way you can help is to give us more ideas of how we can help :-) > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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